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Review - Sam Smiths Organic Cider
I think that Sam Smith's, the Tadcaster based independent brewery, are a fantastic organisation. Everything they brew is vegan and a high percentage is organic. They run some of the cheapest and most pleasant pubs about; their pubs feel like proper pubs, rather than soulless McPub beer malls. By Wotan, none of their pubs or drinks are even advertised in the media! So, I wanted their Organic Cider to be a truly phenomenal drink, like their many fantastic beers. Read More …
- 2011-06-13T18:03:45Z
- Published: 18:03:45 on Monday, 13 June
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Video: ORGCon Open BBC Session
In case you haven't noticed their "Protect Your Bits" poster in the background of the IT Crowd, let me introduce the Open Rights Group. The work they're doing on digital civil rights is crucial to everyone who values freedom or privacy on the interwebs. Not just activists and geeks but everyone who doesn't want to see the UK sleepwalk into a surveillance society. They had a conference, ORGCon in London on 24 July and this is the Open BBC session from that conference with Tony Curzon Price from OpenDemocracy, Mo McRoberts, and David Tomlinson. With Cory Doctorow facilitating. Read More …
- 2011-05-19T11:22:36Z
- Published: 11:22:36 on Thursday, 19 May
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Cider Reviews
Cider is an alcoholic drink made by fermenting apples. I'm particularly fond of good proper cider (i.e. not the sacchirine-infused Strongbow type). I often go by the name ciderpunx online (I like punk rock too). I went through a phase a couple of years back of publishing cider reviews and have now resuscitated the habit. More recent reviews are marked up with the hreview microformat.
Recent cider pics The ciderslider requires javascript. Trying to load it now...Read More …- 2011-04-20T19:02:32Z
- Published: 19:02:32 on Wednesday, 20 April
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Review - Aspalls Premier Cru
You may be thinking that labelling a cider "Premier Cru" is, well, a bit wanky. And I'd have to agree with you. However, Aspall Premier Cru Suffolk Cyder made me reconsider. A bone dry feast of light appley loveliness in a distinctive cone shaped bottle, it positively leapt down my neck. Honest. That's why I had to have a few. It's very much a French-style cider but, with its seven percent kick, you realize pretty soon that you're not in Normandy any more, Toto. Read More …
- 2009-06-18T09:20:10Z
- Published: 09:20:10 on Thursday, 18 June
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Review - Chiddingstone Bone Dry
Chiddigstone Bone Dry is brewed by the Castle Cider company in Sevenoaks, Kent. Served at the Spotted Dog in Penshurst and to my knowledge, no other pub in the area, this 7.5%er certainly packs a powerful punch. It has a crisp, light appearance and certainly does not taste like a strong cider. It has an almost champagne-like appearance and is dry and has a pleasant aftertaste of elderflower. This is the cider for dry cider afficianados. It has everything a dry cider could want to have, aroma, a long palate, beautiful light effervescence and a pale almost ghostly colour. Read More …
- 2008-11-22T17:23:14Z
- Published: 17:23:14 on Saturday, 22 November
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Review - Addlestones
I had high hopes for Addlestones, being, as I was, somewhat hungover from a night at the local. The occasion was the opening of my pal Meredy's official birthday season. It was lunchtime and I was on the "other" side of Magdalen bridge. To East Oxfordians the other side of the bridge is a place of myth, Japanese tourists, stuck up students and well, you know, weirdness. Read More …
- 2008-06-21T21:09:16Z
- Published: 21:09:16 on Saturday, 21 June
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Review - Westons Organic
My local pub started selling Westons Organic cider a few months ago. I'm feeling pretty lucky about it I can tell you. Though mass produced, it's a real cider, made from fruit rather than concentrate. It has a nice balance between bitttersweet apple and booze. Its fairly heavy; more a cider for a cold winter night round the fire than for prancing round a sunny festival with. Read More …
- 2007-09-16T18:03:34Z
- Published: 18:03:34 on Sunday, 16 September
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Windows Vista - Time to Jump
Windows Vista will profoundly downgrade your ability to use your computer as you see fit, rather than as Microsoft and the corporate media see fit. It will operate inefficiently, forcing users to upgrade to expensive and power hungry new hardware which will be bad for the environment, especially hard hit will be poor countries. It will work badly for gamers and it will lock you in to Microsoft's troubling vision of the future. So, I am supporting the BadVista campaign to oppose the adoption of Vista, and to encourage software freedom not software feudalism.
I urge you not to let Microsoft take away your freedom. Resist Vista and jump now!Read More …- 2006-10-13T10:00:00Z
- Published: 10:00:00 on Friday, 13 October
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